Our children want more than presents, that want our PRESENCE.
— Heather SchuckIn the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.
— Seth Adam SmithEvery child should be nurture with great love. The feeling of great love promotes wellness and potential for greatness.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaChildren see beauty in everything.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaHe had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he found it. It was in the face of the love of his life, his daughter. She who had never blushed before, now blushed. And in that blushing, he knew, was the existence of God. That was the day her father learned what God was. God was pure beauty, God was his daughter’s face when she blushed.
— Roman PayneThe accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of their breathing, and something cold moves through him, like the passage of a ghost - but he know that's not it. It's more like the portent of a future. A future that must never come to pass......And for the first time, he gives rise to a thought that is silently echoed in millions of homes that night. My God... What have we done?
— Neal ShustermanWithout warning he had become witness to something that stretched back through the eons, ties both elastic and enduring, surpassing death, surpassing life. She was his child. It was as simple as that and that complex.
— Kim HarrisonThere is no death in remembrance. Remember me, Sarah. Remember me, and a part of me will always be with you.' - Martha Carrier to her daughter, Sarah Carrier.
— Kathleen KentIt is the responsibility of parent to love and care for their children.
— Lailah Gifty AkitaThe birth of a child is a joy to the parent and the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita